The jury appreciated Tropical Warehouse for its precise play between architectural and vegetative envelopes. On a very limited site, the project creates a green volume as a floating armature around the building, turning planting into shade, increasing privacy, thermal comfort and spatial depth. Both architecture and landscape remain porous, with semi-open spaces, trellis structures and dense planting producing a lively exchange between inside and outside. The jury was convinced by the emplacement of this ambiguity between what is built and what is grown, between what contains and is contained, and between industrial form and tropical garden. - from the award statements
